Will Eisner is well known to many comic fans. During the 1940s, Eisner produced the famed strip The Spirit, an urban-crimefighter series. Then, in the 1970s, his career shifted to graphic novels, the genre Eisner birthed with groundbreaking A Contract With God?
Eisner's output between The Spirit and A Contract With God? has been somewhat undervalued. That is, until now.
PS, produced by Eisner for the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1971, is celebrated in the new book PS Magazine: The Best of Preventative Maintence Monthly. PS (or postscript) functioned as an educational tool for American soldiers, presenting safety measures with humor and easy-to-understand colloquial language.
Eddie Cambell, a comic artist in his own right, selected the best of PS for the book. It is a not just a look at the missing link in Eisner's career, but the first ever collection of this material presented in digest format.
We spoke to Cambell about Eisner and the makings of PS Magazine: The Best of Preventative Maintence Monthly.
